Home Sweet Home!

I've been home for 2 days from my cruise and have been so busy trying to catch up from being gone for 9 days. It's always no fun coming home and having to go through the mail, clean, unpack and all that jazz. I had an awesome time and will start posting tonight with pictures and a day by day break down of my family reunion cruise. All in all, it was really fun. Although, I had a lot on my mind and was anxious to get home to get a few things settled once and for all. Haha...that sounds a little suspicious but it's nothing major, just some personal things I needed to finally take care of and as far as I know it's resolved, and in my favor! I'm happy about that. I might post later on regarding that particular situation but until then I'll keep it a mystery. The countdown continues though becuase I leave for Puerto Rico and my next cruise in 5 days! I can't wait. Stay tuned for all my pictures of family fun in the sun!!

Go GMU Patriots!!

I am getting my masters degree from George Mason University. The year that I was applying they went to the final four of the NCAA championship. Basketball is my favorite sport and I love March Madness! I am happy to report that my team, the GMU Patriots, won the CAA tournament and automatically get a bid into the tournament...wahoo! Who knows, maybe the Cinderella story is returning. Too bad I'll be on vacation when the rest of the nominations are out. I just hope the cruise boat has satellite so I can find out who and when the Patriots play and can cheer them on!

I wish I was...

If you're a facebook fan then you are aware of the feature to update your status. Under your name you can write "Amy is blah blah blah." Everyone puts in whatever they want. Last week I put "Amy is wishing she was..." I didn't fill in the rest of that statement and thought it would be fun for people to imagine what I would put there. "Wishing I was..." has so many meanings for me. For example, I wish I was done with school and I wish I was in the warm sun (although I will be in a few days). Anyway, I know that wishing is not always a good thing and we need to be happy and enjoy the present. I am happy with how things but I still have my days where I wish for things. I do have to mention that I wish for things that will be realities in time, like finishing school, but it's all that waiting I don't really care for. Patience is not a quality I say I possess but I'm working on it. I have a few other things that I'm wishing for but I think it's best to keep those to myself for now :) I'm going on my family cruise in 3 days!! I can't wait to have fun in the sun!!

We Got 2nd!!!

Two posts ago I said I was stressing because of school and the after-school work I was doing with the step team. It's hard on my patience at times to stay dedicated to helping the girls my step team stay motivated because they range from 11-14 years old and have other things on their minds. To the left is my team...plus some other students that help out a lot. Tonight my team, aka, "Dip-Set" competed in "The Ultimate Challenge" at one of the nearby high schools. It was my teams first competition and they rocket it. We won 2nd place in the middle school division. Below is the video of my teams routine. They were awesome and I'm so proud. I felt like a Mom or something. Haha...but seriously, I thought they were great and they got a lot of compliments from other schools. They couldn't believe it was their first time performing. We have a show in April and I think we have what it takes to get first next time around. Stay tuned. Do it Dip-Set!!!


The High School next to us has a special relationship with our school and our step team has become their mascots. Over the last few weeks one of the "D-Block" steppers came to our practices to help us out. I couldn't get all of their routine on video because my memory card was full but here is a clip. They rocked it too and got 2nd place in the high school division...they should have got first but I wasn't judging. Go D-Block!!

For Fun...

Bloggers, Myspacers, Facebookers, Beboers, Hi5ers and any others that use social networking sites can really appreciate this cartoon...it's so true. Since I've become a blogger and Facebook/Myspace user, I really do spend less time trying to stay in touch because the computer makes it so much easier :)

I'm stressing!!

I am leaving next Friday for a cruise with the family. We're having a little family renunion and I'm super excited. There's 28 of us going on the cruise, which sounds like a lot but being that my Dad is 1 of 10 kids it's not that many. Nine of the his siblings are going (one aunt couldn't make it) and some of my cousins but there's a good amount not coming...which saddens me because there's some I've never met, let alone know their names. It's actually pretty pathetic but my Dad's never been one to stay in touch well with his family so this cruise is a pretty big deal and I'm looking forward to getting to know some of my aunts, uncles and cousins better. Although, my cousins that are going I grew up with so I know them, I just haven't seen them in a while.

My immediate family, plus Joe (my sister's boo) will be leaving Virginia on Friday afternoon and making the nice long drive to Miami...it's 18 hours if you didn't know. I guess it worked out cheaper to drive together than flying. Personally, I'd rather fly but I don't get to make those kind of decisions, being that I'm the youngest. Going on an 18 hour car ride scares me a little because I haven't done a family road trip in at least 9 years...this should be interesting. My brother has a big Ford F250 with lots of space so we should fit comfortable. I fully intend of staying in the bag sleeping on the mattress we're putting in the whole time...away from everyone. I'm sure in the long run they will appreciate it because my family brings out an interesting side of me that I like to keep locked away. Stay tuned for posts on that drive! My family road trip is not what's stressing me out though.

Next week starts off my traveling adventures. I will be in and out of town for the next four months, only home for a week or so at a time before I head off to my next trip. As fun as it's going to be, I have A LOT to do before I go and I'm worried I might not get it all done. Thankfully, I've become a gym goer so that reduces a lot of my stress (and probably takes too much time) but I can't seem to shut my brain off at night to let myself sleep because I'm too busy worrying about all the things I have to do. I am a graduate student in my last semester so I have that to worry about. I'm also taking 2 online classes I need to finish up to qualify for my teaching license and it's seriously pure torture for me. I'm a huge procrastinator and each day that passes is less time I have to complete the courses and more work I have to do...it officially sucks. And the classes are so boring...economics and the history of England, ugh! I need to just suck it up and finish them already! They've been hanging over my head for months and I just want them done. Also, I'm the step team coach at the school I work at and we are competing this Friday. The team has been practicing hard and I think they are going to do great, we might even win, but who knows. I'll be posting a video of that this weekend. And also, this weekend I'm going to be performing some hula dances with some girls in my hula group so I have to practice those dances as well. Add all those things up what do you get? One very stressed out and not very fun to be around Amy!!